3 months ago
Sydney, AustraliaSenior
Responsibilities
- Build backend services and APIs for onboarding, accounts, payments, cards, transfers, rewards, travel, foreign exchange, KYC, and risk flows.
- Design reliable systems for customer transactions, operational workflows, and future financial products.
- Integrate with internal systems, financial partners, payment providers, AI services, and third-party platforms.
- Own backend reliability, security, latency, observability, data integrity, and incident handling.
- Collaborate with product, frontend, mobile, and AI teams to launch features safely.
- Improve systems by simplifying workflows, reducing manual work, and automating repeatable processes.
Requirements
- Strong backend engineering experience in production systems.
- Understanding of APIs, databases, authentication, authorization, queues, jobs, events, and integrations.
- Experience building services for real customers or internal operations at meaningful scale.
- Strong debugging, reliability, security, and data quality mindset.
- Ability to balance speed, correctness, scalability, and maintainability.
- Fintech, payments, banking, wallet, KYC, fraud, or risk experience is preferred but not required.
- Strong English communication skills.
- Candidates must already be based in Australia.
Benefits
- Remote work arrangement; candidates must be based in Australia.
- Fast interview process, with strong candidates potentially receiving an offer within one week of starting interviews.
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About Bjak
Bjak builds an online insurance marketplace for consumers in Malaysia and Southeast Asia, enabling comparison and purchase of car, health, life, and travel policies. Its business model is aggregator-based, earning commissions and fees from insurers and partners while streamlining digital applications and renewals. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Selangor, it is privately held and is expanding from insurance comparison into broader fintech services via a planned finance super app.